If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now

Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

De: Christopher Ingraham

Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg

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A real life awakens.

I loved it. The performance was wonderfully done. A refreshing real life awakening in an overly and sometimes shamefully "woke" era. Kiddos Chris!

Loved it. As a millennial I Totally want to move there

I don’t have kids but lived the life of busy high pressure job with title in an NYC apt life for more than a decade. It’s not a sustainable life. A human being cannot live like that and not end up breaking something-it’ll either be health, money or relationships. Or all three.

This author describes precisely what the current issue is with the modern career structure that forces people and families to squeeze into the impossible demands of keeping up and living and just breathing without always chasing a deadline or always feeling like “you haven’t made it yet”

Minnesota here I come

awesome

loved this story ,highly recommend!
Was a inside view of a mall town America life.

Loved every bit! 😁

As a fellow Minnesotan, (Duluth) I loved the telling of a transplant telling the truth of how we live. Things we don't see because they aren't unusual. Our mannerisms, and our sayings, our hotdishes, our activities despite winter, the way we look out for one another. It's in our DNA. Welcome! I'm glad you stayed.
Super funny part. The reading of the plum post. And the tossing dead animals in the trash with tons of acreage around in which to bury them. Also, the wet ladder in the treestand. Tickled my funnybone.
The contraption for ice fishing? It's just called a fish finder. We don't care if they work. It's just part of fishing.
While I'm not at all interested in statistics, I loved this story so much that I hated that it was over. Book II, perhaps? Love the everyday living stories.

Lessons for Anyone

The author's story moving from suburban DC to small town Minnesota takes the concept of moving to smaller places to the extreme. I grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, spent some time in Atlanta then moved back and experienced similar insights. His writing is funny and data driven (he writes data driven stories for the Washington Post). It's both a good family story and very informational about why it's a good idea to move to smaller population centers. You don't necessarily need to move to a tiny town on the tundra to achieve higher quality of life and lower cost of living. I think many people living along the coasts or huge cities could learn a lot from this book.